Miscellaneous Things From Hahvahd Yahrd
I don’t know about you but my brain is fried. I can’t sustain a full post. So, I’m going to write a few mini-posts that you might find interesting.
Parenting Style and Reading Ability
One of our lecturers today is an Economist who collected extensive student data on factors that affect student achievement. He stated that based on research, children who come from a household whose parents are strict and warm at the same time are more likely to have higher reading comprehension. Consequently, students whose parents don’t provide a home with strict rules usually perform very low on reading comprehension test.
So there you go. Straight from a Senior Hahvad Professor, if you want your children to have excellent reading comprehension, you have to provide a home with strict rules but at the same time a home where your children feel safe and feel loved.
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A Don Imus Moment
Since I’m here by myself, every time we have group work, I usually team-up with my fellow Lone Rangers. During our group work today, I joined a couple of principals from different schools but they are from the same district.
We introduced our selves to each other and we exchanged pleasantries. They asked me about my school and I in turn did the same. One of my questions is about their schools’ demographics and this is the answer that was given to me by one them.
“Our demographics is pretty good. We have two black kids who were adopted by white families, a few Asian and they do really well, and the rest are whites.”
I’m going to leave this one for you to dissect.
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My Best Friend Won The Lottery
One of the Assistant Principals who I met here at Hahvad said that her best friend won $4 million on the lottery. I immediately said, “Great, now I can say that I know someone who knows someone who actually won the lottery.”
The other Assistant Principals listening to the story asked if her best friend gave her some money. She said, “She gave me a thousand dollars for a down payment for my Jeep.”
We all started laughing!
I said, “You gotta be kidding me. She won $4 million, and she only gave you, her best friend, $1 thousand ?”
I know, $1 thousand is $1 thousand, but if I won $4 million on the lottery, I will definitely give my best friend more than $1 thousand. I would at least give him $1,001.00.
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A Pound of Flesh for A Hahvahd Shirt
No wonder Hahvahd is loaded with moooohlaaaaah. One Hahvahd shirt would cost you an arm and a leg.
I bought some souvenir shirts for my babe and the rugrats and I cried when I saw how much I had to pay.
I thought about giving it back, but you know how it is. When you have children, you cannot go home from a trip without a souvenir. The first thing that will come out of your children’s mouth is not, “Welcome home Daddy. I missed You. How’s your trip?” As soon as you walk-in through the door, your children will run up to you and say, “Daddy, wadya bring me?” Enough Said.
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This is it for now. I gotta go back to my homework and fill my head with more information so I can appear intelligent tomorrow during discussion.
